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Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Careers in International Security: A Conversation with Marisa Porges, International Security Program Fellow

The International Security Professional Interest Council, in
collaboration with the Belfer Center for Science and International
Affairs and the Office of Career Advancement, will host a student
seminar with Marisa Porges, International Security Program
Fellow with the Belfer Center for Science and International
Affairs. Ms. Porges will speak on how to manage a career
that crosses the divide between government agencies and the
public-private-non-profit sectors, as well as answer questions from
students.
Marisa Porges is a terrorism expert who previously served as a
counterterrorism policy adviser in the U.S. Government. She worked
at the U.S. Department of Defense, handling detention policy, and
at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, crafting strategies to
counter terrorist financing and corruption. Porges was also an
international affairs fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations
and served as an embedded civilian adviser at ISAF Headquarters in
Kabul, Afghanistan. She began her career on active duty in the U.S.
Navy, flying the EA-6B Prowler.
Ms. Porges recent research on radicalization, ex-combatant
reintegration and reconciliation, and detention operations includes
rigorous fieldwork in Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and more,
interviewing government officials, ex-Taliban and former members of
al Qaeda. She is currently working on a book that presents a new
approach to evaluating government efforts to rehabilitate
terrorists. Ms. Porges holds an A.B. in geophysics from Harvard, an
M.Sc. from the London School of Economics, and is a doctoral
candidate at King's College London. Her work has been published in
Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the New York Times, and
more.